Galatiatɔwo 4
1 Nya si gblɔm mele lae nye be zi ale si domenyila aɖe nye ɖevi ko la, vovototo aɖeke mele eya kple kluvi dome o, evɔ eyae nye nuwo katã ƒe aƒetɔ hafi.
But I say that what time the heir is a child, he differeth not from a servant, though he be lord of all,
2 Ele na ɖevi la be wòawɔ nu si edzikpɔlawo ɖo nɛ la va se ɖe esime wòaxɔ ƒe si fofoa ɖo da ɖi la.
but is under curators and stewards until the time which his father appointeth.
3 Nenema ke esi míawo hã míenye ɖeviwo la, míenɔ xexe sia me ƒe gɔmedzenuwo kple gbɔgbɔ siwo kpɔ ŋusẽ ɖe xexe sia me dzi la ƒe kluvinyenye te.
So we also, while children, under the principles of the world were subjected.
4 Ke esi ɣeyiɣi nyuitɔ va ɖo la, Mawu dɔ Via si nyɔnu aɖe dzi le se la te la ɖa
But when the fulness of the time had come, Aloha sent his Son, and made from a woman, and made under the law,
5 be wòaɖe ame siwo le se la te la, be wòate ŋu axɔ mí abe eya ŋutɔ ƒe viwo ene.
that them who were under the law he might redeem, and we might receive the constitution of sons.
6 Esi mienye viawo ta la, Mawu dɔ Via ƒe Gbɔgbɔ ɖe miaƒe dziwo me, eya ta azɔ la, miate ŋu ayɔ Mawu dzideƒotɔe be, “Abba, Fofo.”
And because you are sons, Aloha hath sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, who crieth, Father, our Father.
7 Eya ta mèganye kluvi azɔ o, ke boŋ ènye Mawu ŋutɔ ƒe vi; azɔ esi nènye via ta la, Mawu wɔ wò eƒe domenyilae.
Therefore you are not servants, but sons; and if sons, heirs also of Aloha, through Jeshu Meshiha.
8 Tsã la, esi mienya Mawu o la, mienye kluvi na nu siwo menye mawuwo tso dzɔdzɔme o la.
For, while not knowing Aloha, you served them who by their nature are not gods:
9 Ke azɔ esi mienya Mawu alo magblɔ be Mawu boŋ nya mi la, nu ka ta miagadi be yewoagbugbɔ ayi subɔsubɔ gbɔdzɔ, dahe, dzodzrowo gbɔ ɖo? Ɖe miedi be yewoaganye kluvi na wo akea?
but now that you have known Aloha, and especially that you have been acknowledged of Aloha, turn you again to those diseased and beggarly principles, and will to be subject to them afresh?
10 Miewɔna ɖe ŋkekewo kple ɣletiwo, azãgbewo kple ƒewo ƒe ɖoɖo tɔxɛwo dzi.
Days, and months, and times, you observe.
11 Mele vɔvɔ̃m ɖe mia nu be agbagba siwo katã dzem mele ɖe mia ta la zu dzodzro mahĩ.
I am afraid, lest vain in I have laboured among you.
12 Nɔvi lɔlɔ̃awo, mele kuku ɖem na mi be miwɔ nu abe nye ene, elabena nye hã mezu abe miawo ene. Miewɔ vɔ̃ aɖeke ɖe ŋunye o.
Be you as I am, for I am as you are, my brethren, I beseech you. In nothing have you injured me.
13 Abe ale si mienyae ene la, menɔ dɔ lém esi metsɔ nyanyui la vɛ na mi zi gbãtɔ.
For you know that in infirmity of my flesh I preached to you at the first.
14 Togbɔ be nye dɔléle la nye nuɖiaɖia hã la, miegbe nu le gbɔnye alo do vlom o, ke boŋ miexɔm, eye miekpɔ dzinye abe mawudɔla aɖe menye alo Yesu Kristo ŋutɔ ene.
And the temptation of my flesh you did not despise nor execrate; but as an angel of Aloha you received me, and as of Jeshu Meshiha.
15 Azɔ afi ka miaƒe dzidzɔ ƒe kafukafu la le? Elabena mate ŋu agblɔe be, ɖe miete ŋui la, ne mieho miaƒe ŋkuwo le to me hetsɔ nam.
Where then is your happiness? For I testify of you, that had it been possible, your eye you would have plucked out and given to me.
16 Ke azɔ la, ɖe mezu miaƒe futɔ, elabena megblɔ nyateƒe la na mia?
Have I become your adversary, because I have preached to you the truth?
17 Aʋatsonufiala mawo le didim vevie be yewoadze mia ŋu, ke menye ɖe miaƒe nyonyo ta o. Nu si wole didim be yewoawɔ lae nye be yewoɖe mi ɖe aga tso gbɔnye, ale be miaɖo to yewo wu.
They are emulous of you not for good; but they would shut you in, that you might be emulous of them.
18 Enyo ne amewo ve mia nu kple tameɖoɖo nyui ɖaa, ke menye le ɣeyiɣi si me mele mia gbɔ ko o.
But it is well to be emulous in good things at all time, and not only when I am with you.
19 Vinye lɔlɔ̃awo, megale veve sem ɖe mia nu abe funɔ si le ku lém la ene va se ɖe esime Kristo ƒe gbɔgbɔ ayɔ mia me mlɔeba.
My children, with whom I travail afresh until the Meshiha be formed in you,
20 Medi vevie be manɔ mia gbɔ fifia, ne nyemanɔ nu siawo ŋlɔm na mi o hafi; ke esi mía dome didi ta la, maʋu eme be nyemenya nu si tututu mawɔ o.
I would be with you now, and change the sound of my voice, because I am astonished at you.
21 Migblɔe nam, mi ame siwo di be yewoanɔ se la te la, mienya nu si se la gblɔ oa?
Tell me, you who are willing to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
22 Elabena woŋlɔ ɖi be viŋutsu eve nɔ Abraham si; ɖeka dada nye kosi, ke evelia dada ya nye ablɔɖenyɔnu.
For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one of the bondmaid, and one of the free.
23 Abraham ƒe viŋutsu si dada nye kosi la, wodzii le ŋutilã la nu, ke viŋutsu si dada nye ablɔɖenyɔnu la, wodzii le ŋugbedodo la nu.
But he who was of the bondmaid was born according to the flesh, and he who was of the free was by the promise.
24 Nu siawo nye lododo ko, elabena nyɔnu eveawo sɔ kple nubabla eve. Nubabla ɖeka la, woxɔe le Sinai to dzi, eye eyae dzi ɖevi siwo nye kluviwo. Esia nye Hagar.
But these are parables of the two covenants: the one which was from Mount Sinai bringing forth into bondage, which is Hagar:
25 Eya ta Hagar nye Sinai to si le Arabia, eye wòsɔ kple egbegbe Yerusalem du, elabena eya kple viawo le kluvinyenye me.
for Hagar is Mount Sinai which is in Arabia, and answers to this Urishlem, and serves in bondage, she and her children.
26 Ke Yerusalem si le dziƒo la vo, menye kluvi o, eye eyae nye mía dada.
But she, Urishilem the high, is the free, who is our mother.
27 Elabena woŋlɔ ɖi bena, “Dzi nedzɔ wò, O konɔ, wò nyɔnu si medzi vi kpɔ o; do ɣli sesĩe nàtso aseye, wò ame si melé ku kpɔ o; viwo le nyɔnu si tsi akogo la si wu nyɔnu si si srɔ̃ le la gɔ̃ hã.”
For it is written, Be glad, O barren, who hast not borne; Exult and cry, thou who hast not travailed; Because multiplied are the sons of the desolate, More than the sons of the married wife.
28 Azɔ nɔviwo, abe Isak ene la, miawo la, mienye ŋugbedodo la ƒe viwo.
But we, my brethren, as Ishak, are the children of promise.
29 Abe ale si viŋutsu, si wodzi le ŋutilã la nu ti viŋutsu, si wodzi tso Gbɔgbɔ Kɔkɔe la me yome va yi ene la, nenema tututu wògale fifia hã.
And as then he who was born of the flesh persecuted him who was after the Spirit, so also now.
30 Ke nu ka Ŋɔŋlɔ Kɔkɔe la gblɔ? Egblɔ be, “Nya kosi la kple via, elabena kosi la ƒe vi mate ŋu anyi Abraham ƒe dome kple ablɔɖenyɔnu la ƒe vi gbeɖe o.”
But what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondmaid and her son; for the son of the bondmaid shall not inherit with the son of the free.
31 Eya ta nɔviwo, menye kosi la ƒe viwo míenye o, ke boŋ míenye ablɔɖenyɔnu la ƒe viwo.
We therefore, my brethren, are not the children of the bondmaid, but the children of the free.
